10-letter words containing pp
- hippieness — the state or quality of being a hippy or hippies
- hippocampi — Classical Mythology. a sea horse with two forefeet, and a body ending in the tail of a dolphin or fish.
- hippocrene — a spring on Mount Helicon sacred to the Muses and regarded as a source of poetic inspiration.
- hippodrome — an arena or structure for equestrian and other spectacles.
- hippogriff — a fabulous creature resembling a griffin but having the body and hind parts of a horse.
- hippogryph — Alternative spelling of hippogriff.
- hippolytus — Also, Hippolytos [hi-pol-i-tuh s, -tos] /hɪˈpɒl ɪ təs, -ˌtɒs/ (Show IPA). Classical Mythology. the son of Theseus who was falsely accused by his stepmother, Phaedra, of raping her after he had rejected her advances and who was killed by Poseidon in response to the plea of Theseus.
- hippomanes — (formerly) a substance found on the forehead of a newborn foal or obtained from a mare in foal, thought to act as an aphrodisiac
- hippomania — A passion for horses.
- hippomenes — the successful suitor of Atalanta.
- hippophagy — the practice of eating horseflesh.
- hippophile — one who loves horses.
- hippophobe — someone who hates horses
- hippotamus — Obsolete spelling and common present-day misspelling of hippopotamus.
- hippuritic — of, relating to, or containing hippurites
- hopper car — a freight car, usually open at the top and containing one or more hoppers so that bulk cargo can be quickly discharged through its bottom.
- horn poppy — a European plant, Glaucium flavum, of the poppy family, having yellow flowers, naturalized along sandy shores in eastern North America.
- hot pepper — any of variously shaped pungent peppers of the genus Capsicum, containing large amounts of capsaicin and usually having thin walls.
- hot-dipped — coated by being dipped into molten tin or zinc.
- hush puppy — a small, unsweetened cake or ball of cornmeal dough fried in deep fat.
- inapparent — not apparent.
- inapposite — not apposite; not pertinent.
- job hopper — a person who job-hops
- joy-popper — Slang. to take a narcotic drug occasionally, but without being an addict.
- keepy-uppy — the act or an instance of keeping a ball off the ground by bouncing it repeatedly on a foot, knee, or head
- kidnappers — Plural form of kidnapper.
- kidnapping — to steal, carry off, or abduct by force or fraud, especially for use as a hostage or to extract ransom.
- killer app — a highly innovative, very powerful, or extremely useful computer application; esp one sufficiently important as to justify purchase of the equipment or software
- kipper tie — a very wide tie, often brightly coloured and patterned
- kneecapped — Simple past tense and past participle of kneecap.
- kneecapper — Person doing kneecapping.
- lady apple — a small, yellow apple with a red blush, grown as a specialty variety, and used for eating and in commercial canning.
- lagniappes — Plural form of lagniappe.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- lippershey — Hans. died ?1619, Dutch lens grinder, who built the first telescope
- lippizaner — one of a breed of compact, finely shaped, usually gray or white horses developed at the Austrian Imperial Stud and used generally in dressage exhibitions.
- love apple — a tropical, tender plant, Solanum aculeatissimum, of the nightshade family, having prickly leaves, clusters of large, star-shaped white flowers, and red, tomatolike fruit.
- melanippus — a Theban who killed Tydeus in the battle of the Seven against Thebes and who was, in turn, slain by Amphiaraus.
- mesohippus — any of a group of prehistoric horselike animals of the genus Mesohippus, which had three toes and which lived during the Oligocene epoch
- minifloppy — Alternative spelling of mini-floppy.
- misapplied — mistakenly applied; used wrongly.
- misapplies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misapply.
- misappoint — to name or assign to a position, an office, or the like; designate: to appoint a new treasurer; to appoint a judge to the bench.
- misshipped — a vessel, especially a large oceangoing one propelled by sails or engines.
- misstepped — Simple past tense and past participle of misstep.
- mopping up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- mopping-up — serving to complete or put the finishing touches to a phase of a particular action.
- mudcapping — the process or act of blasting a rock surface with explosives
- mudskipper — any of several gobies of the genera Periophthalmus and Boleophthalmus, of tropical seas from Africa to the East Indies and Japan, noted for the habit of remaining out of water on mud flats for certain periods and jumping about when disturbed.
- nappy rash — If a baby has nappy rash, the skin under its nappy is red and sore.